Judgmental opinions

In one of my writings earlier I had written about the importance of communication with our family members I found that many of us rarely speak to our spouses as "people ".... we take them for granted So we don't speak with the same courtesy with our spouse as we speak to others So this brings about a gap in our communication We need to realise that our spouse is another person.... and he or she has feelings of their own.... Like since the wife's job is cooking and taking care of children, the husband cannot do it.... if he does, what will people say? is the refrain Actually people are least bothered... It is only our own thinking I don't want to blame anyone but I feel there has to be more communication about our feelings Like if you get tired while working, you must tell that you are tired and need some help.... not demand help but the correct words will come if you don't speak to your spouse as husband but as another person Request for some help g...

Garbage segregation is important and good practice even for us Every time the garbage collector comes to collect our garbage, we hold a kerchief to our noses and hope he goes away quickly Yet the garbage collector has to tolerate the smell over his full work day And once it goes to the recycling unit, scores of workers have to manually sift through our garbage to segregate it They have to separate the recyclable items from the non-recyclable items Small pieces of plastic like the ones left over from chocolate wrappers, tiny strips cut off from chips and milk packets cannot be recycled and have to be used in landfills Similarly, sanitary napkins and diapers cannot be recycled.... and these are the worst because we wrap soiled napkins into papers and then seal them in plastic bags You can imagine the poor worker handling this bag, opening the wrapper of plastic bag, then the soiled newspaper and finally the days old soiled napkin Hence as conscientious citizens, it is advisab...

A friend has posted an interesting video on his Facebook account It is about what is required now to retain employees in a work place The advisor illustrates his argument that we have been witness three generations of employees in the work place The first generation was our grand parents generation who needed jobs and remained in a work place for their entire life, not out of loyalty but necessity Jobs were scarce then and they needed the job for food than anything else The second generation worked in a job out of necessity for the status that they could enjoy on holding that position And the present generation is difficult to remain loyal to work place unless the employer makes the work place more pleasant to be in Though this can be a good argument for the IT industry, I don't think I agree with it fully The present generation obviously has a lot of choices but it is more dissatisfied with itself Its expectations are more than their capabilities This generation is mor...

We have heard of this statement: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it Effectively, it tells us that we have to be aware of our history That we need to be aware of the mistakes that we have committed in our past and avoid repeating them if the consequences are bad We also take pride in our past, about the history of our country, about human civilization, about our culture Yet we never realise that what we know of our history is what is documented by the people living and experiencing at that period of time We interpret the writing to match our beliefs Is it possible that what we have learnt of our own history is not interpreted correctly? This is the surmise on which a novel I am currently reading based on! Whether it is possible to interpret history in a different way or different context The situation quoted in the novel is about slavery A fictional group is systematically out to interpret slavery in the US as not existent at all It tries to and a...

I remember reading a very interesting book some time ago The title of the book was "It was on fire when I lay down on it" The title depicts a man lying on a bed which was on fire... how did he land up there? He said, it was on fire when I lay down on it! Laughable it is, yet this is the situation many of us end up in We know something isn't going to work, yet we end up on it.... it may be our job, or our marriage... the bed was already on fire when we went to lie on it! There are situations in life that we need to avoid.... yet we fall into the trap knowingly And then complain that our life is full of misery We walk into a job that is frustrating.... we marry an incompatible person.... we get addicted to bad influence... and then we complain or cry that our life is a failure Sometimes it is little things. . Like a making friends with a person who always puts you in trouble.... or getting into a habit like smoking or drinking or gambling And then you feel you ca...

On our bathroom wall just above the sink is a post it sticker on which is written, "Wake Mimmi up at 6 am" Right next to it is another one on which an arrow is drawn pointing to the first post it and with the words,"Parth, don't touch this post it" Though Meenal is pretty fastidious about cleanliness, these post its have been in place for several years now That's because it was written at a time when my daughter Mrinmayee (Mimmi for short) had just learned writing And though these post it stickers have faded and the writing barely visible, they remain in place tickling our hearts every time we brush our teeth These and several such tokens of our children's childhood serve little doses of happiness into our lives There's a small rag doll named Dora smeared with sketch pen marks of lipstick and kajal at the bottom of our wardrobe that has magical powers to drive away bad dreams and have served their purpose in Mrinmayee's infancy Tiny hand...